Join us at DC EV for an insightful exploration into the world of Electric Vans and their growing significance in the business sector. In this engaging episode, our expert, Dave Humphreys from Complete Car, delves deep into the advantages and advancements of electric vans, a segment rapidly gaining traction in the automotive market.

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Welcome to 2024 DC EV - Adrian sat down with the ever-informative Dave Humphrey to dive into where EVs are and how 2024 is shaping up.

• What’s happened with EVs in the last year?
• EV sales
• BYD Atto 3, Dolphin, Seal
• Charging infrastructure
• Affordable EV’s
• Consumer confidence
• Brighter future
• Exciting for 2024

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In this episode of the podcast, Paul and Adrian explore several aspects of Tesla's market dominance, including its recent price drops and their effects on both Tesla customers and the wider EV market. Besides, they also discuss Tesla's decision to offer discounts on left-hand drive models instead of right-hand drive models in some markets, as well as the frustration felt by customers who have paid for Tesla's full self-driving capabilities upfront but have not yet received them.

The hosts acknowledge Tesla's revolutionary technology, but raise concerns about its fluctuating goals and potentially negative impacts on long-term customer satisfaction. They also discuss how the depreciation of electric cars affects the industry and highlight the emergence of new, cheaper brands from China that may challenge established brands in the future.

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Hot off the Press and just off the plane, Dave Humphries gives us all the news from Auto Shanghai 2023 - China storming into Europe and beyond with many new brands and models - A super insight into the not-to-distant future - Thanks as always, Dave!

• China
• How big and diverse
• Battery Technology
• Different brands
• Eyes on Europe
• Car shows wind down
• Big car market
• BMW, Porsche, Mercedes
• Bad, NIO, Conglomerate
• Market hungry for new products
• Snobbery
• Rapidly changed
• Chinese car brands iterate so quickly
• Not scared to make mistakes
• Size of the car market
• VW was the biggest seller in China
• VW has just been eclipsed by BYD
• Compare Ireland to China
• Every VW sold in Ireland in 12 months - In China, they sold in 40 hours
• Multiple brands
• More than 1 billion people
• Shanghai alone has 24 million
• Beijing has 20 million people
• Baoding (10 Million People)
• Great Wall Motors
• Hydrogen R&D centre
• 1.2 million square metres
• Built in 14 months from a green field site
• Moves very fast
• Reaching saturation
• Expansion into Europe
• Expertise with battery technology
• Desire to grow
• Eat a lot of people's lunches
• BYD launched (Build your dreams)
• MDL round since the 1950s
• Couple hundred cars on the ground
• Seal, Dolphin, and Seagull
• Funky cat
• Produce
• Name is irrelevant
• Brand relevance
• Skoda
• Twitter
• Surprised
• Not perfect Atto 3
• Continental tyres
• NIO
• Battery swap
• Hongqi
• Wey
• Habal
• Tank
• Jeep Wrangler
• General Motors
• VW Group
• Stellantis
• Geely
• Cupra
• Lucid
• Electrification
• Plethora of cars
• MG
• MG4
• MG Cyberster
• Watch this space

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What a pleasure for us to have the great future creating @bobbyhealy of @mannadronedelivery on the purple chairs for a fun and superbly informative chat. The 'purple chair' policy is for an informal, unscripted, and first-take chat so that you guys get a real feel for the person and their passion/business without the tech-heavy narrative! Enjoy, and let us know what you think. Thank you, Bobby!

• Bobby Healy Manna Delivery intro
• 2 min 40 seconds average delivery time, 3 miles distance
• 35,000 population balbriggan
• 300/400 deliveries a day
• Coffee and croissants 30/40% of orders
• Every household used once a week
• Golden retriever with wings!
• IAA top 2/3 regulator in Europe
• Illegal and dangerous to fly if you're not regulated
• Certified as both an airline and an airline manufacturer
• Irish government in support
• Ireland is the epicentre of drone delivery
• 2nd in the world for drone delivery
• Overtaken Amazon, who spent 3 billion dollars
• Ireland has an environment to allow our trials and tests
• Fast turnarounds with inspections and audits
• Fast past Commercial grade interaction with government and regulator enables the business.
• FAA in the USA, with 50,000 employees, must slower to pass legislation - 5 years behind Europe
• Safety is most important - how do we do a million flights a day without a catastrophic incident
• Catastrophic incident number - the ratio of catastrophic incidence to flight hours
• Airbus A-320 ratio is 10 to minus 9, so 1 in a billion hours of flight, there's a catastrophic incident
• Drones are safer, don't carry people, fly much slower, much lighter, much smaller - won't lead to a death
• The drone ratio is 10 to the minus 6 - 1 catastrophic incident in 6 million flights
• Dash, a US delivery company, does 2 billion deliveries yearly - We want to do 10 billion annually!
• Uber autonomous driving stopped after a lady in Phoenix died
• 6 years of investment, with 120 people without opening the cash register
• The benefit of it taking so long to build the safety/business is other companies can't quickly build their own
• Takes 200 million euros to get to a position where you can be profitable
• Hardware is a pain in the ass
• If we have enough money, 90% in our own hands - 10% in regulation and the government's hands
• 3 kg weight allowance in a drone
• You can get more than 1, and they fly in formation - a squadron of 5 drones, and an armada of 3 drones
• Track the aircraft; very cool and tells you when it's outside
• Pints of Guinness in Oranmore -settles as it flies!
• Bakery and community impact of drone delivery
• NPS (Net promoters score) is 86 better than apple
• Bookshop in Oranmore is better than amazon for delivery times!
• Enable the local vendor to thrive - compete with the big guy
• The goal is 2 billion deliveries just for fast food plus pharmacy etc
• 300 billion industry becomes a trillion

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We were so excited to have the great Elaine Butler of the Circular Design Institute in for a chat with our own Adrian Slattery about everything circular economy. Elaine is brilliantly passionate and a knowledge powerhouse. It's fascinating to see what can be done within manufacturing/construction and other companies when they dig deep into their processes and ecosystems. Elaine is the person to help your business make the right steps to do so! Also, Adrian had to mention his Vivobarefoot shoes made out of plastic bottles (not sponsored!!). Enjoy and please let us know if this brought value to you or your business.

• What is the Circular Economy?
• Buzz around the Circular Economy in Europe
• Even if we move all own energy production to renewables, it will only take 45% of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere
• 55% of greenhouse gas emissions hope to deal with the circular economy
• 4 principles that underpin the circular economy
• 1- minimising the use of resources, 2 - designing out waste, 3 - keeping material in use as long as possible (repurpose/recycle), 4 - Regenerating natural systems
• Hard to send the product back to the manufacturing
• Global supply chains
• Successive governments trying their best
• Linear system
• Long process
• Huge changes in Europe
• Where are your suppliers?
• Paying increased levies
• Companies need to start looking at this
• First to be looked at is Furniture/textiles
• Ego Design sustainable supplies regulation
• Levies on the price you pay for the product
• Reduced sales / higher levies
• Recycle back into your product
• Boost sales by getting on different aspects of the circular economy
• Full picture
• Customer knowledge and education
• A company, the customer, can trust
• Smaller companies can move quicker
• Secure your customer base
• Secure your revenue stream
• Make revenue in other ways
• Vivo Barefoot made out of bottles
• China has a network of agents (advanced circular economy)
• Infrastructure to automate it

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• What is Renewable Energy
• Wind Energy
• Legislation
• Should we have free energy
• Island of Ireland
• Behind the curve
• Data farms
• 100% renewable energy
• People want renewable energy
• It's not just about the price
• Consumption-based analysis
• Smart metering
• Understand your baseline
• App - Profile
• LED lighting saving up to 80%
• Companies' energy bills
• Critical energy analysis
• Figures
• Battery storage
• Government payback

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• Charging station Etiquette
• Bad parking in EV space
• Overstay charge of €8
• People waiting/watching while you charge
• Anxious wait
• Bug Bears
• Limited Superchargers
• Numerous Apps
• Infrastructure
• Shopping centres
• Not bothered
• Shouldn't be a hassle

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